Elmer Spann
Posted: November 10, 2018
VERNON, Ala. — Elmer Ann Spann, 76, died Nov. 9, 2018, at the Fayette Medical Center in Fayette, Alabama. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Dowdle Funeral Home Chapel in Millport with James Godsey and Brian Reeves officiating. Burial will follow at Walnut Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home. Dowdle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Spann was born March 3, 1942, to the late Homer and Beulah Mae Newell. She was a barber school graduate and was formerly employed with Chromeolox and a member of Pleasant Hill Free Will Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Robert Lovia Hudson; son, Daniel Hudson; brothers, Joe Newell, Charles Newell and Kenneth Burkhalter; and sisters, Willete Burkhalter, Lurline Hildreth and Nell Howard. She is survived by her husband, Donald Spann; daughters, Deborah Farooq and Felicia Carr, both of Columbus and Margaret Reeves of Sulligent; sons, Randy Hudson of Millport and Greg Hudson of Tuscaloosa; sisters, Dot Davis of Foley and Theresa Johnson of Northport; nine grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Wayne Trimm, Wesley Newell, Bruce Burkhalter, Joey Burkhalter and Wayne Hildreth.